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Finance Award

Is this for you?

Whether you're looking to gain some bookkeeping abilities for work or for your own use, this is a fast-track bookkeeping programme for people with an aptitude for figures keen to gain essential business finance experience.

Award and Associated Qualifications

Awarded 85 CPD points upon successful completion

Start Date

Flexible

Study Type

In centre, online, or a combination

Training Type

award

Duration

85 hours or 3 weeks full-time study

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About this award

Our Finance Award is one of our range of mini-Diplomas.

The Award covers Manual Bookkeeping, Sage and Excel training to give you a wide ranging knowledge of general accounts.

Unlike some courses, ours gives you all the time-management benefits of flexibility to suit your work or home life. You can start anytime and study part or full time, depending on your situation.

Flexible training which fits around your commitments

Support on hand from our friendly course advisors

Get the skills in demand by employers

Aims and Objectives

This award will help you gain hands-on experience of key financial processes and how to work common programmes Sage 50 Accounts and Microsoft Excel.

Courses Included

Sage 50 Accounts 2017

This Sage 50 Accounts course will help you learn how to process a business’ finances using this globally renowned accounting software. This is essential, interactive training using the very latest version of Sage Accounts, designed for those who already have an understanding of manual bookkeeping processes.

Excel

Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate level. Over 10 self-paced lessons you'll learn how to format your spreadsheet to best display your information, handle simple and complex formulas, insert charts, learn how to insert functions such as IFERROR and much much more.

alternative Excel Expert

Our Excel Expert level course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to use this popular spreadsheet programme to an advanced level. You can choose whether you'd like to study 2013 or 2010 and over a series of self-paced lessons you'll learn how to perform tasks such as conditional formatting, recording and running macros, working with pivot tables and using statistical functions.

Bookkeeping Transactions and Controls Part 1

This course will help you learn the processes and procedures involved in manual bookkeeping. You will cover the double entry system, the basics of VAT, checking invoices for accuracy, day books, general ledger, purchase ledger and sales ledger, prompt payment discount, petty cash books, balancing ledger accounts and many other aspects of manual bookkeeping. Once you have completed this training, you will be well placed to go on to study computerised accounting.

Pre-Requisites

There are no specific pre-requisites required for this award.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: -

Self-Funded:

Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;

You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.

Funding & Grants:

There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.

We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.

Career Path

A great training programme if you're aspiring to work as a bookkeeper or gain a role in the accounts department of a business. With this you could progress towards roles such as Accounts Assistant, Auditor, Sales Ledger Clerk, Purchase Ledger Clerk or push your training further and train to become a qualified Accountant.